Caging Women Is Violence – Not ‘Safety’ or ‘Protection’
Women are people with an inalienable right to live the fullest of lives. Everything that prevents their life from being lived to the fullest extent of freedom, is a form of violence.
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India’s Staggering Unemployment Crisis
The pandemic is not responsible for the unemployment crisis in the country, it has only worsened it. An estimation of the extent of unemployment in the country before the pandemic struck.
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Misleading Economic Signals
Even while the real economy remains in contractionary mode, not only have stock market returns exploded, but India’s stock of foreign exchange reserves have registered record-breaking increases. Nevertheless, the economic crisis is all set to worsen.
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Under Cover of Covid-19, Modi Regime Steps Up its Attack on Indian Democracy
It has aimed its battering ram at the Indian Parliament, Indian federalism, the Indian press and Indian civil society organisations.
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Historians Audrey Truschke and Ira Mukhoty on: ‘Love Jihad’ and Mughals
Time and again, the Mughals have been brought into the conversations around “Love Jihad”, with the argument that it was practiced widely in the subcontinent under its emperors. A conversation with two eminent historians on what do history and evidence say.
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Hindutva Leaders Revile Gandhi and His Message, But Can’t Resist Basking in His Glory
Try as it might, the Sangh parivar cannot discard the Mahatma or his legacy.
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Relevance of Ambedkar
The problems spotlighted by Ambedkar’s life, struggles and experimentation in ideas remain alive and kicking more than 50 years after his death, while the big socio-political questions he raised about the state, well-being and future of India remain basically unanswered.
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In America, Business Profits Come First Over the Pandemic
Blaming the deadly virus surge on individuals and their risky behavior ignores that the real fault lies with a government that chooses to prioritize the health of businesses over humans. Plus: “Why America Should Look to China to Contain Covid-19”, by William A. Haseltine.
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Palestinian Rights Have Always Been Secondary to the ‘National Interest’ of Arab Regimes
Since the First World War, the Palestinians have been used as a bargaining chip by different Arab regimes to advance their own interests by sacrificing Palestinian rights.
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“This Is Not What America Stands for” — Except, uh, in Latin America
U.S. interference in Latin America, installing bloody dictators in order to secure profits for U.S. corporations, has been going on for more than a century. Trump is now offering a small taste of these same gangster methods in the heart of U.S. imperialism.
